Michael Coburn wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:39:39 -0400, Beam Me Up Scotty wrote:
wrote:
On Aug 19, 10:47 pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
I want to know what is so difficult about reading a 1000 page, double
spaced, single sided bill, when your kid can read 1000 pages of Harry
Potter in under a week (double sided pages, in much smaller print, and
single spaced). And BTW, it's their JOB to read these bills. We don't
pay them to make stupid remarks on television.
That is not what I learned from my high school Social Studies teacher.
We were taught that the House and Senate were subdivided into
committees. Legislators were expected to be expertly knowledgeable
only about the bills reported out of their committees, not all bills.
The "READ THE BILL!" rablle rouserrs are just displaying their own
stupidity and ignorance.
Why have them all vote, if they have no clue what they are voting for?
It would be suffecient to have those "expertly knowledgeable only about
the bills" vote for the entire congress......
The representatives of the people do not need to read the legal version
in order to be fully aware of what is in the bill. The American people
should also have a PLAIN TALK version of the bill. The "expertly
knowledgeable are on the committees that draft the bill and haggle out
This is what the Church did to elevate it's self above the common
people. Latin was used to exclude the people.... Now you want our
government to become elitist, when the Constitution was written it was
plan text that we all could understand. It had to be to be ratified and
accepted by the people.
what is in the bill in the committees. The market up version is then
ready for debate and amendment. The knowledge of what is in the version
"reported out" of the committee and of all the proposed amendments are
the responsibility of the caucus that will assign different staff members
and House members to each such task in order to produce a more
intelligible shorter version of the legalese.
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